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March 7, 2009 - 11:43 am

Tell Pelosi and Reid to stop porking up Congressional spending bill

By Jim Boren

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid aren't doing President Barack Obama by loading up the omnibus spending bill will wasteful pet projects. In an editorial today, we urge Obama to tell Pelosi and Reid to cut...

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February 17, 2009 - 11:21 am

NEWS FEED: Calitics

We're Making Them Filibuster

By David Dayen

So there is going to be a reconvening of the State Senate today at 10am. I know, that's what they said yesterday. But the plan from Sen. Steinberg is to keep the Senate on the floor until 27 members vote for passage and the crisis is (temporarily) averted. Meanwhile, 20,000 layoff notices and the closure of $3.8 billion in state public works projects will take place today. Things like projects to eliminate arsenic in Live Oak in the Central Valley. You know, dispensable things. And the Times has a bead on the three Assembly members who plan to vote in favor - Roger Niello, Anthony Adams and Minority Leader Mike Villines.

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January 27, 2009 - 11:09 pm

NEWS FEED: Calitics

CA-32: No Labor Getting The Labor Secretary Confirmed?

By David Dayen

So after huffing and puffing for weeks, Arlen Specter got what he wanted out of the Eric Holder nomination hearings (his main potential primary opponent declined to run against him) and decided to back the Attorney General nominee. After all the talk of principle and judgment, it just took improved electoral prospects for Specter to have a change of heart. Funny how that goes.

But there's another nominee that is languishing, perhaps the only true progressive in Obama's cabinet, and many of us would like to know why. Greg Sargent at his new digs reports on Hilda Solis' nomination:

Why hasn't Hilda Solis been confirmed as Labor Secretary yet, and why haven't we heard from the unions or from the Obama administration about it?

Some top operatives in the labor movement are frustrated with the Obama administration for not giving them the go-ahead to publicly target Republicans who appear to be stalling Solis' confirmation, people in the labor movement familiar with the situation tell me.

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Wed, 09/24/2008 - 12:55

Feinstein hammers 'First Nail' on presidential inauguration ceremony planning

By Jeff Mitchell, PolitickerCA.com Editor

WASHINGTON - The Golden State's senior U.S. Senator, Dianne Feinstein, picked up a hammer Wednesday and symbolically began construction on the 2009 presidential inaugural platform.

Feinstein, who chairs the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, was joined Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada), Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) in the traditional "First Nail" ceremony which kicks off construction of the platform and planning for the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States on Jan. 20.

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Wed, 08/27/2008 - 06:45

Today's convention schedule

By Politicker Staff

The third day of the Democratic National Convention will be called to order at 5:00 PM EST on Wednesday, with a theme of "Securing America's Future."

The day will begin with the nominating process for President, including nominating speeches for U.S. Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.), followed by a roll call vote.

The headline speaker will be vice presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.).

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